Coin-controlled vending-machine.



II. GILES.

COIN CONTHOLLED VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IUIIE I7. IsIIs.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.L

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HARVEY GILES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T ARTEMAS WARD, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 19116.

Application iiled .Tune 17, 1916. Serial No. 104,146.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, HARVEY GILEs, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Coin- Controlled Vending-Machines, of which the following -is aspecification.

The invention pertains more particularly to coin-controlled vendingmachines of the smaller type having a superposed goods receptacle` and abase-portion forming a coinreceiving chamber and equipped at its frontwith a door which may be locked in closed position and opened whennecessary, and the invention resides more especially in special meansfor securely fastening the machine to a vertical wall or correspondingsurface.

1t has been found that small machines of the character referred toherein are liable to be stolen, and hence the object of my invention isto provide such adequate securing and supporting means for the machineas to render it substantially impos sible for the machine to bestolen.

In accordance with my invention l equip the front of the coin-chamber ofthe machine with a door having a lock, andthe back of said chamber withan inner transverse bar containing a locking-screw which may be reachedby means of a screw-,driver through the door-way of the machine when thedoor is opened or removed, and l provide the back of the base of themachine with an iron loop extending transversely and securely riveted atits ends through said back and through the aforesaid bar, and with thebase portion of the machine l associate a bracket of specialconstruction adapted to be screwed to a supporting wall and having atits lower end claws .ens tere-d below and engaging the bottom of themachine and at its upper end a member adapted to snugly iill theaforesaid loop and having a hole within the coniines of said loop intowhich the aforesaid locking screw may be entered. The concealed lockingscrew prevents the withdrawal of the machine from the bracket, and theback of the machine is so close to the body of the bracket as to preventthe removal of the screws by which the bracket is fastened to thesupporting wall. l first screw the bracket t0 the supporting wall andthen apply the machine on the bracket and thereafter through the frontdoorway of the machine, and with the use of a screw-driver, cause theconcealed locking screw to enter the hole in the upper end of thebracket, after which 1 lock the front door of the machine so that anunauthorized person may not be able to reach the concealed lockmg screw.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed descriptionhereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section,of a machine and bracket embodying my invention, the

same being shown as applied to a wall which is also indicated insection; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through a portion of the same,taken on the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 8 is a detached innerface view of the bracket.

ln the drawings 10. designates a coincontrolled vending machine which,except for the features of my invention, may be considered of usualtype, said machine comprising a goods receptacle 11, a b-ase 12, anoperating rod 13 for the delivery mechanism, not shown, and acoin-receiving chamber 14 formed in the base 11 and accessible by meansof a front door 15 equipped with a suitable lock 1G. r)Che base 12 mayvary in outline, but 1 prefer to make use of a rectangular form of base,as shown.

Within the chamber 14 and against the back 17 of the base, I secure 'areasonably thick bar 18 havingascrew-threaded hole 19 containing a screw2O whose head is exposed within the chamber 14. rlhe back 17 isapertured in line with the hole 19 so that the screw 2O may extendthrough ysaid back as well as through the bar 18. Upon the outer orexposed face of the back 17 is secured a metal loop 21 whose ends areriveted, as at 22, to the back 17 and also to the bar 18, the rivets 22extending through the end portions of the loop 21 and also through theback 17 and bar 18. The bar 18 is thicker than the back 17, and whenriveted against said back andV to the loop 21 materially strengthens theback and renders the structure as a whole capable of resisting certainstrains which might be applied in attempting to tear the machine fromits support.

screw holes 29 to receive the screws 30 by which the bracket is fastenedto the supporting wall 31.

In assembling the parts the bracket 23 is first secured to the wall 31by means of the screws 30, and through the front doorway of the base 12the screw 20 is, by means of a screw-driver, retracted into the open--ings in the back 17 and bar 18 so as to leave the loop 21 clear, andthereupon the machine is applied to the bracket 23, the loop 21 being`passed downwardly upon and snugly receiving the upper member 25 of thebracket, and the lower rear corner portions of the base resting upon thediverging claws 27 of said bracket. The screw 20 is then by means of ascrew-driver screwed rearwardlyT into the hole 26 of the bracket 23 orto the position shown in Fig. 1, and thereupon the door 15 is returnedto its position and locked, so that the head of the screw 20 may beconcealed and not reached by an unauthorized person. The body portion 24of the bracket 23 is offset rearwardly, as shown, to afford a shoulder32 adapted to receive the lower edge of the loop 21 and aid insupporting the machine. The offset of the body portion of the bracket 23becomes necessary at times as a means of preventing the goods-receptacle11 from engaging the wall 31, but I prefer that the b`ody-portion of thebracket be offset outwardly to as limited an extent as maybe convenient,so as to leave as little space as possible between the back 17 of thebase 12 and the body portion 24 of the bracket, this being for thepurpose of making it diflicult for anyone vto reach the screws 30,which, as may be seen, are substantially concealed behind the back 17.

The claws or feet 27 materially aid in supporting the machine, and theymay vary considerably in outline, but I illustrate two diverging clawsor feet of a construction I have found to be highly efficient in use andto afford an adequate support in a bracket whose upper portion is not ofundue width. The bracket 23 is of metal and of considerable strength, sothat it may resist strains It has been customary to secure small vendingmachines to their supports by means of exposed pad-locks and the like,but it has been found that these means are inadequate, the pad-lockbeing fully exposed. In accordance with my invention, the locking screw20 is concealed and can only be reached when the door 15 is opened andthen only by means of a screw-driver extended through the coin-chamber14. The lock 1G on the door 15 will be of a type not capable of beingeasily manipulated, except with the use of a proper key.

llllhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is:

1. In combination, a coin-controlled vending machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at one side with a. door and lock thereforand at its opposite side with an inner screw whose head is accessibleonly from within said chamber when the door is open and an outer loopsecured to said side in line with said screw, said side having anopening behind the loop for the passage of said screw, and a supportingbracket having an apertured member to enter said loop and receive theouter end of said screw and a body-member to be fastened, behind saidopposite side of the base, to a wall.

2. In combination, a coin-controlled. vend ing-machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at one side with a door and lock thereforand at its opposite side with an inner screw whose head is accessibleonly from within said chamber when the door is open and an outer loopsecured to said side in line with said screw, said side having anopening behind the loop for the passage of said screw, and a. supportingbracket having an apertured member to enter Said loop and receive theouter end of said screw, a. bodyanember to be fastened, behind saidopposite side of the base. to a wall and a lower member extending belowand receiving the adjacent portion of said base.

3. In combination, a coin-controlled vending-machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at one side with a door and lock thereforand at its opposite side with an inner screw whose head is accessibleonly from within said chamber when the door is open and an outer loopsecured to said side in line with said screw, said side having anopening behind the loop for the passage of said screw, and a supportingbracket having an apertured member to enter said loop and receive theouter end of said screw, a body-member to be fastened, behind saidopposite side of the base, to a wall and a lower member extending belowand receiving the adjacent portion of said base and having a shoulder toengage the vertical side of said lower portion of the base.

4. ln combination, a coin-controlled vending machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at one side with a door and lock thereforand at its opposite side with an inner screw whose head is accessibleonly from within said chamber' when the door is open and an outer loopsecured to said side in line with said screw, said side having anopening behind the loop for the passage of said screw, and ai supportingbracket having an apertured member to enter said loop and receive theouter end of said screw, a body-member to be fastened, behind saidopposite side of the base, to a wall and a lower member extending belowand receiving the adjacent portion of said base and composed ofdiverging feet having on their upper sides shoulders to engage thevertical side of said lower portion of the base.

5. In combination, a coin-controlled vending machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at one side with a door and lock thereforand at its opposite side with an inner screw whose head is accessibleonly from within said chamber when the door is open and an outer loopsecured to said side in line with said screw, said side having anopening behind the loop for the passage of said screw, and a supportingbracket having an apertured member to enter said loop and receive theouter end of said screw and a body-member to be fastened, behind saidopposite side of the base, to a wall, said bracket having a shoulder toreceive the lower edge of said loop.

6. In combination, a coin-controlled vende ing-machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at its front side with a door and locktherefor and on its rear side with an inner bar having a threaded hole,a screw in said hole whose head is accessible only from within saidchamber when the door is open and an outer loop riveted at its ends tosaid side and said inner bar and being in line with said screw, saidside havn Y ing an opening behind said loop for the passage of thescrew, and a supporting bracket having an apertured member to enter.said loop and receive the outer end of said screw and a body member tobe fastened, behind said rear side of the base, to a wall.

7 in combination, a coin-controlled vending-machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at its front side with a door and locktherefor and on its rear side with an inner bar having a threaded hole,a screw in said hole whose head is accessible only from within saidchamber when the door is open and an outer loop riveted at its ends tosaid side and said inner bar and being in line with said screw, saidside hav ing an opening behind said loop for the passage of the screw,and a supporting bracket having an apertured lnember to enter said loopand receive the outer end of said screw,

a body-member to be fastened, behind the rear side of the base, to awall and a lower shouldered member to receive the lower angular rearedge portion of said base.

8. In combination, a coin-controlled vending-machine having a basecontaining a chamber equipped at its front side with a door and locktherefor and on its rear side with an inner bar having a threaded hole,a screw in said hole whose head is accessible only from within saidchamber when the door is open and an outer loop riveted at its ends tosaid side and said inner bar and being in line with said screw, saidside having an opening behind said loop for the passage of the screw,and a supporting bracket having an apertured member to enter said loopand receive the oute'r end of said screw, a body-member to be fastened,behind the rear side of the base, to a wall and a lower shoulderedmember to receive the lower angular rear edge portion of said base, saidbody-member being offset outwardly and affording a shoulder to receivethe lower edge of said loop.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, this 16th day of June, A. D. 1916.

HARVEY GILES.

Witnesses ARTHUR MARION, CI-IAS. C. GILL.

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